Jared Kushner's Firm Eyes Billion-Dollar Property Deals in the Balkans

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12. That may well be.

I know just about nothing about Albania that's isn't generic Comecon boilerplate.

My ex challenged me to a language-learning contest and she picked Albanian.

She bailed when I was nearly finished the 1st year textbook and she wasn't half way through. Made me prove it by doing exercises and sight-translations of texts. But that was in 1996 or 1997. Learn quick, don't review, forget quick.

Same with her next language challenge, Tohono O'odham. She figured I had an Indo-European advantage for Albanian (which is a squirrelly IE language with significant Balkan areal features) so she picked a Native American language from her backyard. I beat her at that (which was a stupid, stupid thing to do). Nonetheless--like Albanian, it's all gone.